Dhaka, Aug. 22 -- Last week, a high-level 15-member European delegation, primarily comprising parliamentarians and civil society members from Germany, undertook a four-day study tour of Bangladesh underlining the importance of dialogue and greater understanding between Germany and Bangladesh.

The know-Bangladesh-better tour was facilitated by The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) South Asia, a Germany-based organisation that promotes individual freedom and classical liberalism. The delegation arrived in Dhaka on August 12 as part of their four-nation tour of South Asia that also took them to the Maldives, Bhutan, and India. It left Dhaka on August 15.

The visit from German liberal politicians and civil society members came ...